Framing Community Disaster Resilience

An essential guide to the foundations, research and practices of community disaster resilience

Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters. The text draws on the activities and achievements of the project emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe. The authors identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of disciplines and domains and present an analysis of community characteristics, networks, behaviour and practices in specific test cases.

The text contains an in-depth exploration of five test cases whose communities are facing impacts triggered by different hazards, namely: river floods in Germany, earthquakes in Turkey, landslides in South Tyrol, Italy, heat-waves in London and combined fluvial and pluvial floods in Northumberland and Cumbria. The authors examine the data and indicators of past events in order to assess current situations and to tackle the dynamics of community resilience. In addition, they put the focus on empirical analysis to explore the resilience concept and to test the usage of indicators for describing community resilience. This important text:

• Merges the forces of research knowledge, networking and practices in order to understand community disaster resilience

• Contains the results of the acclaimed project Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe - emBRACE

• Explores the key dimensions of community resilience

• Includes five illustrative case studies from European communities that face various hazards

Written for undergraduate students, postgraduates and researchers of social science, and policymakers, Framing Community Disaster Resilience reports on the findings of an important study to reveal the most effective approaches to enhancing community resilience.

The emBRACE research received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained in this publication.

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HUGH DEEMING, Principal Consultant, HD Research, Bentham, UK MAUREEN FORDHAM, Emerita Professor of Gender and Disaster Resilience, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Centre Director, IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, UCL, UK CHRISTIAN KUHLICKE, Professor of Environmental Risks and Sustainability, joint appointment Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and University of Potsdam, Germany LYDIA PEDOTH, Senior Researcher, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy STEFAN SCHNEIDERBAUER, Senior Researcher, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy CHENEY SHREVE, Adjunct Researcher, Western Washington University, Resilience Institute, Washington, USA

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AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE FOUNDATIONS, RESEARCH AND PRACTICES OF COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters. The text draws on the activities and achievements of the project emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe. The authors identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of disciplines and domains and present an analysis of community characteristics, networks, behaviour and practices in specific test cases. The text contains an in-depth exploration of five test cases whose communities are facing impacts triggered by different hazards, namely: river floods in Germany, earthquakes in Turkey, landslides in South Tyrol, Italy, heat-waves in London and combined fluvial and pluvial floods in Northumberland and Cumbria. The authors examine the data and indicators of past events in order to assess current situations and to tackle the dynamics of community resilience. In addition, they put the focus on empirical analysis to explore the resilience concept and to test the usage of indicators for describing community resilience. This important text:

• Merges the forces of research knowledge, networking and practices in order to understand community disaster resilience
• Contains the results of the acclaimed project Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe - emBRACE
• Explores the key dimensions of community resilience
• Includes five illustrative case studies from European communities that face various hazards Written for undergraduate students, postgraduates and researchers of social science, and policymakers, Framing Community Disaster Resilience reports on the findings of an important study to reveal the most effective approaches to enhancing community resilience. The emBRACE research received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/20072013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained in this publication.

Inhalt
List of Contributors xi

1 Introduction **1
**Hugh Deeming

1.1 Book Content 2

References 3

Section I Conceptual and Theoretical Underpinnings to Community Disaster Resilience 5

2 Understanding Disaster Resilience: The emBRACE Approach **9
Thomas Abeling, Nazmul Huq, Denis Chang*Seng, Jörn Birkmann, Jan Wolfertz, Fabrice Renaud, and Matthias Garschagen*

2.1 Introduction 9

2.2 Resilience: Concept 9

2.2.1 Resilience in the Social Domain 10

2.2.2 Resilience: An Outcome or a Process? 11

2.2.3 Resilience on Individual and Collective Levels 11

2.3 Resilience: Methodology 12

2.3.1 Social/Political Resilience 12

2.3.2 Linking Biophysical and Social Resilience 14

2.4 Resilience: Indicators 15

2.5 Gaps and Challenges 17

2.5.1 Challenges in the Transition from Ecology to Social Science 17

2.5.2 The Role of Power 18

2.5.3 Representation of Community 19

2.5.4 Transformation 20

2.5.5 Resourcefulness 21

2.6 Conclusion 22

References 22

3 Mobilising Resources for Resilience **27
**Cheney Shreve and Maureen Fordham

3.1 Introduction 27

3.2 Background: Origins of Livelihoods Thinking 27

3.2.1 Successes of SLAs: Changing the Way Development was Done 29

3.2.2 Key Criticisms and the Evolution of Livelihoods Thinking 30

3.2.3 A Closer Look at Social Capital: Background and Key Critiques 31

3.2.4 Summary 33

3.3 Resilience and Livelihoods Thinking 34

3.3.1 Why Disasters? 34

3.3.2 Livelihoods and Disaster Vulnerability 35

3.4 Influence of Livelihoods Thinking on Contemporary Disaster Resilience 36

3.4.1 Linking to Sustainable Livelihoods: Resources and Capacities 36

3.4.2 Community Actions 37

3.4.3 Community Learning 38

3.4.4 Summary 38

References 39

4 Social Learning and Resilience Building in the emBRACE Framework **43
**Justin Sharpe, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Mark Pelling, and Lucy Pearson

4.1 Introduction 43

4.2 What is Meant by Social Learning? 44

4.3 Capacities for Social Learning 46

4.4 Social Learning at the Individual Level 49

4.5 Social Learning at the Community Level 49

4.6 Social Learning and Resilience Outcomes in the emBRACE Project 52

4.7 How Social Learning Provides Opportunities for Sharing Adaptive Thinking and Practice 54

4.8 Conclusion 56

References 56

5 Wicked Problems: Resilience, Adaptation, and Complexity **61
**John Forrester, Richard Taylor, Lydia Pedoth, and Nilufar Matin

5.1 Introduction 61

5.2 A Brief History of Policy 'Mess' and 'Wickedness' 62

5.2.1 'SuperWicked' Problems 63

5.3 Resilient and Adaptive Responses to Mess 64

5.4 Clumsy Solutions Linking DRR/DRM and CCA: A Mini Case Study 66

5.5 An emBRACE Model of Complex Adaptive Community Resilience 69

5.6 Conclusion 71

References 72

**Section II Meth…